A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
What’s happened to the sky?Aurora!Captured in 2015, this aurora was noted by Icelanders for its great brightness and quick development.The aurora resulted from a solar storm, with high energy particles bursting out from the Sun and through a crack in Earth’s protective magnetosphere a few days later.Although a spiral pattern can be discerned, creative humans might imagine the complex glow as an atmospheric apparition of any number of common icons.
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